Pat Dollard

PARIS, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has accused Israel of genocide against the Palestinian people, telling a French newspaper that the bombing of Gaza late last year was an unprovoked attack. “The question is not whether the Israelis want to exterminate the Palestinians. They’re doing it openly,” Chavez said in an interview [...]

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A South African information technology company on Wednesday proved it was faster for them to transmit data with a carrier pigeon than to send it using Telkom , the country’s leading internet service provider. Internet speed and connectivity in Africa’s largest economy are poor because of a bandwidth shortage. It is also [...]

Reuters Blog: A Democratic meltdown next year? Washington is abuzz with speculation by prominent political handicappers such as Charlie Cook and Stuart Rothenberg. Republican hopes for a huge congressional comeback in the 2010 midterm elections rest on three pillars: 1) History. Since the start of World War Two, the president’s party has lost an average [...]

Courtesy of CSPAN: Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, and the American people: When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month. Credit was frozen. And our financial system was on the verge of [...]

The Guardian: Military officials tonight defended the decision to launch a dramatic raid to rescue a British journalist from the Taliban, in which his Afghan assistant and a soldier were killed, against angry criticism in Afghanistan that the operation had been ordered while talks for his release had already begun. Gordon Brown hailed the helicopter [...]

CNSNews.com: House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said the national news media “misrepresented” town hall meetings held during August by focusing on the minority of attendees who are opposed to health care reform. Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Hoyer said that the media had not done justice to the majority of town hall attendees who [...]

NewsBusters: Ill will against former Vice President Dick Cheney still runs high in some circles. So high, in fact, that when the University of Wyoming decided to name an international student center after him, Suzanne Pelican began circulating a petition against it last year. One year later, that petition has earned 150 signatures and an [...]

I Hate The Media: “Pick a goal,” the President said, “Work hard. Succeed.” Some people were surprised that his speech to America’s school kids sounded almost conservative. We say, “Of course, he needs to inspire success.” He knows his socialist paradise depends on a rich, successful minority to support the poor, oppressed majority. Nevertheless, we [...]

FOX News: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is increasingly standing alone among top congressional Democrats in her unwavering insistence on a government-run health insurance plan.

FOX News: Arrest warrants have been issued in Miami for 11 people suspected of falsifying information on hundreds of voter registration cards — including registering the name of the late actor Paul Newman — the Florida state attorney told FOXNews.com. The FBI and state authorities took seven people into custody Wednesday as it issued 11 [...]